Known Agents vs Otterly.AI (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Known Agents if

• Fits if you publish online and want to choose which AI crawlers can read your site
• Works for developers who need to verify AI agents in their own code through an API

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want to know what ChatGPT says about your brand, as it doesn't check answers
• Tight if your site is busy: every API call and batch item counts, so budget about twice your human visits
• Not for you if you can't touch your server, CDN or WordPress setup, as there's no pasted script
• Watch out: the free plan stops at 100,000 events a month, with 1 project and only the basic features
• Watch out: custom features, a custom API and live support are on Enterprise, arranged through a demo

Pick Otterly.AI if

• Fits if a daily read on ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews and Copilot is what you need
• Works for agencies that brand client reports through Looker Studio, from Standard

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if Gemini, AI Mode or Claude matter to you, as they're paid add-ons on every plan, and all seven engines add $227 a month on Standard
• Not for you if you need white-label reports, as there aren't any
• Tight if you start on Lite, with 15 prompts, one workspace, no API or MCP, and no extra prompt packs
• Pricey if you outgrow Lite, as Standard is $160 a month yearly and extra prompts are $99 per 100, with 300 at most before Premium at $422
• Watch out: Claude is tracked through its API using the Haiku model, and crawler analytics needs server log files you upload

Known Agents

• It measures bot visits and AI referrals to your site; it does not check what AI engines say about your brand in their answers.
• Events include every API call and each item in a batch; the vendor suggests budgeting about twice your monthly human visits.
• The free plan stops at its monthly event limit; paid plans get an email suggesting an upgrade when they run over.
• It needs a server, CDN or WordPress integration to collect data, rather than a script pasted into the page.

Otterly.AI

• Google AI Mode and Gemini cost $9, $59 or $149 a month each by plan, and Claude $29, $109 or $439, so all seven engines on Standard add $227 a month.
• Google AI Mode, Gemini and Claude are paid add-ons on every plan; Claude is tracked through its API using the Haiku model.
• Lite has one workspace; extra prompts are sold in packs of 100 on Standard and Premium only.
• There is no white-label option; the Looker Studio connector is the suggested way to brand client reports.

Known Agents

Agent Analytics

Lists the crawlers, scrapers and AI agents visiting a site in real time, with traffic trends, pages visited, sessions, errors and robots.txt violations per agent.

AI chat referral tracking

Counts human visits that come from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek and other AI chats, kept apart from bot traffic.

Automatic robots.txt

Serves a robots.txt that blocks or allows agents by category and updates itself as new bots are found; the WordPress plugin can block bots that ignore it.

Agent Identification API

Identifies and verifies the agent behind an incoming request from your own code, for setting access rules by verified identity.

Server-side collection

Data is sent from the server, CDN or backend rather than a browser script, so it still works when browser analytics are blocked.

Agent Directory

A public directory of thousands of agents and bots that says who runs each one, what it does and how to manage its access.

Otterly.AI

Daily prompt monitoring

Tracks set prompts every day and reports brand mentions, coverage, share of voice and sentiment per engine, in more than 70 countries.

Link citation analysis

Shows which URLs and domains each AI engine cites for a prompt, with a domain ranking to find the sources worth targeting.

AI prompt research

Suggests prompts customers are likely to ask AI search tools about a brand or topic, as a starting set to monitor.

GEO audit

A technical audit of site URLs for generative engine readiness; Lite allows 1,000 audited URLs a month, Premium 10,000.

Agent Analytics

Reports AI agent and crawler visits to your site from server log files you upload.

API, MCP and Looker Studio

An API and MCP server give programmatic access to the data; the Looker Studio connector comes with Standard and above.

Known Agents

• Free$0

  1 project and 100,000 events a month, with basic features. The vendor says this covers most websites.

• Startup$25

  per month for 1M events, billed yearly ($29 billed monthly)

  3 projects, 1 million events a month, the premium features and priority support.

• Growth$250

  per month for 10M events, billed yearly ($299 billed monthly)

  10 projects, 10 million events a month, the premium features and high-priority support.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Unlimited projects, usage-based events, custom features and API, and dedicated live support. Arranged through a demo.

Otterly.AI

• Lite$25

  per month, billed yearly ($29 billed monthly)

  15 prompts tracked daily on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot, unlimited team members, one workspace. No API, MCP or extra prompts.

• Standard$160

  per month, billed yearly ($189 billed monthly)

  100 prompts, API, MCP and Agent Analytics. Extra prompts are $99 per 100 a month, up to 300 more before you must move to Premium.

• Premium$422

  per month, billed yearly ($489 billed monthly)

  400 prompts with everything in Standard. Extra prompts are $99 per 100 a month.

• EnterpriseCustom

  From 1,000 prompts, with SSO, custom terms, a quarterly GEO health check and a dedicated success manager.

Known Agents

• Annual discount

  Save up to 16% with yearly billing

  Known Agents lists Startup at $25 a month billed yearly instead of $29 (14% less) and Growth at $250 instead of $299 (16% less).

Otterly.AI

No public discounts listed.